If anyone balked, it was probably UPN. DS9 had previously had a really torrid and really controversial lesbian kiss in "Rejoined," but it was syndicated and thus not subject to as much censorship. And UPN had pretty much built its whole existence as a network around Voyager, so they were reluctant to take any real risks with it, which is why it so often tended to be a formulaic "TNG-lite" show rather than really taking advantage of its premise.

But that's just a semi-educated guess. We don't really know as much about the behind-the-scenes decisions on VGR and ENT as we do for the other series. The producers of those shows weren't as open about the process for some reason, and the Voyager Companion has virtually no discussion of the creative process or what went on behind the scenes.

One might just as easily start a thread discussion complaining that there weren't enough lesbian kisses between Seven and Janeway.

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NTTAWWT, but in Warlord, there really should have been. Tieran and Nori where an item just hours or days before. Heck, the shot here should have culminated in a kiss, rather than the later one with Ameron.

Kes was a dude that week. Kissing his male finance, which UPN would have been too dull to censor would have been a big gay kiss and just as applaudable as what happened on DS9.

If he kissed that that girl, that would be tediously vanilla & straight. Meh.

On Xena, Bruce Campbell was being soul jockeyed by Xena's ghost when "they" kissed Gabrielle which was an end around on the censors who would not let that show be the screaming handbag full of rainbows it wanted to be.

That wasn't really Zephram. Another non corporeal life form had sucked up a bunch of Zephram years ago, found his looks wanting so redid him to look more mainstream and then carried on as Zephram for so long it forgot it used to be something else.

Haven't seen it, really didn't like the first one. But I do adore that man.. I remember when he was on 6 Feet Under he had a fun Trek reference, right before his lunacy blossomed. I wish I could remember what it was, I know he was lying in bed talking to Ruth.

Haven't seen it, really didn't like the first one. But I do adore that man.. I remember when he was on 6 Feet Under he had a fun Trek reference, right before his lunacy blossomed. I wish I could remember what it was, I know he was lying in bed talking to Ruth.

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Here's one for you...what if Zefram Cochrane is a descendant of Louis Skolnick's dad?

If anyone balked, it was probably UPN. DS9 had previously had a really torrid and really controversial lesbian kiss in "Rejoined," but it was syndicated and thus not subject to as much censorship. And UPN had pretty much built its whole existence as a network around Voyager, so they were reluctant to take any real risks with it, which is why it so often tended to be a formulaic "TNG-lite" show rather than really taking advantage of its premise.

But that's just a semi-educated guess. We don't really know as much about the behind-the-scenes decisions on VGR and ENT as we do for the other series. The producers of those shows weren't as open about the process for some reason, and the Voyager Companion has virtually no discussion of the creative process or what went on behind the scenes.

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By this time two women kissing on TV wasn't a risk, seeing how shows like "L.A. Law", "Picket Fences" & "Rosanne" did it 3 or 4 years before DS9. UPN not wanting to take risks as a network is horseshit. Anybody remember "The Secret Diary Of Desmond Pfhiffer"? "Shasta McNasty"? "The Parkers"?
I think it was due to the script not calling for it because they wanted to relay the point that power was more an Afrodisiac than his girl was. Not having them kiss shows he was pulling away. DS9 did it to relay just the opposite.
I don't think it's any more complex than that.